Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Comes now a new paradigm based on the old saw: “All politics is
local”.

In my business, programmers and talk show hosts were forever
admonished to stick to local issues in order to attract and keep the audience: the
closer to home the scandal or event, the more naturally inclined to listen
would be those in closest proximity. Makes
sense. A mugging down your street will
more likely grab your attention than a drone strike in Yemen or riots in Ukraine.

"This" is a succinct and excellent piece defining Objectivism and worthy of an attentive reading.

It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are supposedly either extremely “liberal” or extremely “conservative” or somewhere in-between. Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, rejects this false alternative and offers an entirely different view of the world.